I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.